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Drop the anxiety, pick up the mic

The bride and groom have been dreaming of this day for years, but you've been having show-up-to-school-naked nightmares about your speech for even longer. Not to worry—since 2017, we've been writing press-winning, mic-dropping speeches, and now you can too.

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One.

Answer a few simple questions about your dearly beloveds.

Answer questions about the couple

Two.

Have a chat with our Speech Writer who's been trained (and trained and trained) by us.

Chat with the Speech Writer

Three.

Get a ready-to-deliver draft that you can edit and regenerate to your heart's content.

Download your ready speech

Four.

Take center stage and shine, baby, shine.

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Refinery29: How To Deliver A Wedding Toast Like A Boss. And the best way to make the speech great — and even one you enjoy giving — is to prep as much as possible, say Kristine Keller and Marisa Polansky, cofounders of Speech Tank, a Brooklyn-based speechwriting company. Ahead, they share their top tips for giving a perfectly memorable wedding toast. Keller and Polansky recommend going old-school in a notebook and writing a list of memories, words, or even doodling stuff that reminds you of your friend...
Vogue: This Company Can Write the Perfect Wedding Speech for You—And Is Sharing Its Secrets. Enter: Brooklyn-based writers Marisa Polansky and Kristine Keller. "Friends of ours—smart, funny, competent friends—kept coming to us asking for help with their maid-of-honor and best-men speeches. They wanted to find the perfect words to pay tribute to the couple, but just didn't know where to start," says Polansky. "And then it hit us," says Keller. "If our friends needed some help, then other people must too." So the two founded Speech Tank, a company that specializes in one-of-a-kind speeches...
The New York Times: Struggling to Write a Wedding Speech? It's All in the Details. If you've been charged with saying a few words about the newlyweds, here are some tips to help ease your anxiety and inspire you to speak from the heart. "We're all so acutely aware that no one has any idea what tomorrow will bring," said Marisa Polansky, a founder of the Brooklyn-based speech writing service Speech Tank with Kristine Keller. "The fact that two people want to tackle that tomorrow together feels especially noteworthy. As such, there's more pressure on speeches to bring a weightiness or gravitas to the event, I think. But it's an opportunity, too."...
Glamour: Speech Tank Can Write the Perfect Wedding Toast for You. Land yourself in the wedding toast hall of fame with the help of these speech fairy godmothers. Great news, though, future MOHs and best men: There's now a company that can ensure you and your wedding toast land in the former category as opposed to the latter. Behold Speech Tank, a Brooklyn-based company that will craft the perfect, mic-drop-worthy wedding toast for you. The genius company was founded by Marisa Polansky (a book editor) and Kristine Keller (a writer) after many of their friends—"smart, funny, competent friends," Polansky told Vogue—came to them asking for help with their best men or maid of honor toasts. The duo figured if the...
Harper's Bazaar: Ask a Wedding Expert: How to Write the Perfect Wedding Toast. The speech writing experts and founders of Speech Tank shared their top tips. We turned to Marisa Polansky and Kristine Keller, speech writing experts and co-founders of the new speech writing service, Speech Tank for their know-how on writing the perfect wedding speech, how to manage the fear and loathing that comes with being asked to speak (read: not drink as much as you'd like to for hours and all of a sudden take up comedy) and...
Kinfolk: TOP TIP - Speechwriters Marisa Polansky and Kristine Keller on giving the perfect toast. "We started helping people with their speeches almost a decade ago. We were working in writing and editing jobs in New York and our friends began coming to us with anxiety about speeches they had to write. We realized that if the smartest, funniest and most capable people we knew were struggling, others must be, too. Many believe the key to a memorable toast is to make sure you follow a fairly standard template: to thank certain guests, give advice and lead the party in raising their glasses. While that can be a good place to start, whatever you do should feel personal. The audience should learn something new about who the toast is about, for example—you can include anecdotes but keep it to one or two."...

Something old,
something new

It's been almost a decade since we realized a fundamental wedding truth: great friends, partners, parents did not always make for great speech writers. But we discovered something else, too—they cared. A lot. Great friends cared so much that thousands of them gave us the privilege of writing their most important speeches on their biggest days.

We were honored. And we were time strapped. We wanted everyone to have access to us and our process and frameworks. We wanted everyone to feel prepared and confident, and for each of them to deliver a speech that did their loved ones justice. But there were only so many pens our hands could hold.

So, for the last year, we worked with our expert friends to solve our wedding woes. Enter: our Speech Writer. Only this one is at your beck and call with a ready-to-deliver draft in 15 minutes. It incorporates everything we learned from interviewing and writing more wedding speeches than anyone on planet Earth. So now, everyone who's a great friend, can at least look like a great writer, too.

-Marisa & Kristine

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Marisa Polansky and Kristine Keller, founders of Speech Tank

"I went from wanting to run to the hills to feeling like I actually couldn't wait to give my speech."

— Maya, Maid of Honor

"This made the whole experience a lot more enjoyable than I ever thought it could be."

— Josh, Best Man

"Every bride deserves a dad who gives a speech like this."

— Joe, Father of the Bride

"Really helped me get my thoughts organized and say what I was truly feeling."

— Lee, Groomsman

"I cried when I read the final draft. It was everything I wanted to say but didn't know how."

— Rachel, Sister of the Groom

"Worth every single penny. Can't recommend it enough."

— Lindsey, Bridesmaid

"My daughter said it was the highlight of the whole reception. That's all I needed to hear."

— Marie, Mother of the Bride

"Helped me get over my fear of public speaking and actually enjoy the moment."

— Sara, Maid of Honor

"Knew exactly what to say and how to say it. The ceremony was beautiful."

— John, Officiant

"Made our 25th anniversary toast something our kids will remember forever."

— Christina, Anniversary Toast

"Even I was impressed with myself. Best decision I made all wedding."

— Harry, Groom

"Never thought I'd be the one getting compliments at my own wedding for my speech."

— Annie, Bride

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We have always seen our speeches as co-creations, so the length of time varies depending on the specifics of your chat with our Speech Writer, but you can assume about 15 minutes from start to finish.